WBC News and the Anti-Wrinkle Cream - likely scam?

JuniorSherlock

After the tooth whitening scam that cost a lot of people a lot of money it seems they are at it again with a very similar sounding story here http://wbcnewsonline.com/health/skin/index1.html?c1=gb&c2=f&c3=2465&c4=4. You combine two products for 'amazing' results and just need to enter your credit card details to get your free trial packs. Lots of positive comments about how wonderful it is. When will we hear lots of comments about how money has been taken from peoples accounts?

Even if you cancel your credit card, they can still take money out. They sign people up to an elite membership club that costs around £55 a month and as many people haven't closely read the very very small print, they cannot be done for fraud.

This scam and others like them are costing banks a small fortune, so why are they allowed to carry on doing this and advertise through sites such as facebook?

PhylPho

Thanks, OP, for the link to the phony news site: it's actually a gem of its kind and far superior to the tooth whitening fake sites and all those Oprah-endorsed Acai Berry things.

Other scammers have at least tried to pony up a fictitious address to go with their fictitious interviewees, but WBC News is so bereft of imagination it can't get any further than saying their mother-of-three interviewee is. . . "local".

The phony biog's a hilarious disaster as well: the interviewee has reportedly been looking at spending potentially considerable sums of money on plastic surgery. Well yes. Anyone earning a waitress's wage (yup, she's a mother-of-three waitress) always has a fortune to spend on face lifts.

Best of all though is the way the "comments section" -- stuffed full with wincingly awful fake endorsements written by the scammers themselves -- has been "closed due to Spam".

Priceless. (And especially the capital 'S': are people really bombarding WBC News with stories of why applying processed meat to one's face is a better cure for wrinkles?)

On a serious note though, and in answer to your question:

When will we hear lots of comments about how money has been taken from peoples accounts?

the answer, sadly, is "soon". . .

PS: thanks to c.c. for the usual forensic diligence!

Oopsadaisy

Gee, an internet scam!!!!!!!!!!!!